Multiline Field in a fap

Hi Guys,
Can anyone tell me how to implement multiline field in a fap. It wont allow me to add one in a textarea or table. any workaround? This field will be populated through DAL.
Thanks.
Edited by: user13484277 on Mar 5, 2013 7:14 PM

If you create a field, you can select Multiline text as the type. This creates a field that you can map large blocks of (paragraph) data into.
If you have a "static" text area and are trying to insert a field in the middle where you want to mapped additional data, then you are limited to using a normal Alphanumeric type field inserted into the Text area. This will allow you to map up to the length of the field - where this type of field is limited to 1024 (single-byte) characters. Even though this is a single field, the data will still wrap according to the margins assigned on your Text area paragraph that contains it.
You cannot insert a MLT field into the middle of a Text Area object. A MLT field contains a text area and cannot live inisde of another text area. So, if you have several paragraphs of content and you want to have a free-form space between paragraphs where additional content can map, you would need to split your static content into two text areas and then insert a MLT field in between those paragraphs.

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